How To: Add A Rigging Tube Without Disconnecting Your Outboard - Yamaha F70 

In this video I go over how I added a rigging tube to a Yamaha F70 outboard. It's not really a tube, its actually spiral wrap. As best I can tell, Yamaha does not offer a rigging tube grommet for the F70 so I went with the Spiral wrap. Although it's not as pretty as a commercial rigging tube it still server the two main functions of having one:
1) it Protects the cables and rigging components
2) It Neatens everything up
Since I was rigging this engine from scratch, I could have added a rigging tune but wanted to try the Spiral wrap. I think the Spiral wrap gives you a clean solution without having to disconnect your engine's electrical and control cables.
I used large shrink wrap on the end in this case but may transition to dual sided velcro. We'll look into that in the future.
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00:00 Introduction
01:00 Installing the Spiral Wrap
03:38 Next Steps
04:30 Cutting the Tube
05:05 Adding the Shrink Wrap
06:26 Installing the Floor Plate
07:30 Testing the Fit and Clearance
08:18 Wrapping it Up (No Pun Intended)
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